Elana Glowatz

Not all extinct animals were killed off by asteroid strikes and climate change. Some were hunted to death by humans, including in the last couple of centuries.

The Earth has reached the point in its yearly orbit around the sun when it is farthest away, its aphelion. Happy aphelion to our planet!

Using a robot to get venom out of a scorpion is a much safer way to get their poison than using your bare hands to milk the arachnids.

When humans finally visit Mars, they will probably be using nuclear energy to keep their habitat and scientific equipment running smoothly.

During prehistoric times, America was filled with animals that look like they are straight out of a children’s story. These ancient animals are now extinct but their fossils show us what they were like.

Neonicotinoid pesticides are popular across the world, but do they endanger honeybees? New studies show honeybees are dying, but a number of environmental factors might be involved.

Scientists say they’ve watched light lose energy over distance, potentially reviving a debate about whether the universe is really expanding.

Will there soon be alien life in the Orion constellation? Scientists have found organic molecules in a baby star, which can tell us how habitable planets are formed and how life began on Earth.

The U.S. is the only country to have landed astronauts on the moon. Is that reign about to come to an end?

NASA has new software to drive the Curiosity rover on Mars so it doesn’t completely ruin the robot explorer’s wheels.

Chimpanzees are stronger than humans because of the way we evolved, roaming on the ground instead of swinging in the trees.

When ice melts away in Antarctica and opens the land to invasive species, other animals and plants will become extinct at their hands.

NASA’s space telescope has found tons of planets in other solar systems, including many in the habitable zones of their stars, so it’s looking good that there are aliens out there.

Dogs and cats have sensitive eyes just like humans do, so should they wear special glasses during the solar eclipse to protect them from going blind?

Thousands of years ago, some of the first Americans were making their ancient homes high up in the Andes Mountains, defying all odds.

NASA scientists want to use static electricity to clear dust from the air on Mars so astronauts can make a good life there.

The famous physicist “appeared” at the convention to share a message about the future of technology.

The megalodon was the biggest shark ever — by a lot — but it went extinct a couple million years ago. It turns out it could have died out with many more ocean animals, in a global extinction event.

The great white sharks were found dead, their livers removed as if by a surgeon. Some were missing testicles and a heart.

Just because an asteroid passes by Earth from a safe distance one year doesn’t mean it will always happen that way.

Early and massive hieroglyphic symbols carved into rocks are giving archaeologists a better idea how the ancient Egyptian civilization’s written language started and grew into what we know it at its peak.

What does Betelgeuse look like? Astronomers got the most detailed image ever of the star in the constellation Orion, and it could teach us about the evolution of stars and planets.

Dutch scientists say a meteorite that crashed near Amsterdam this year is about as old as the Earth, so it can tell us how our solar system and our planet formed.

They sound like mythical creatures but these prehistoric American animals were very real before they went extinct thousands of years ago.

Why hasn’t evolution gotten rid of heart disease yet? The genes that cause this widespread condition also make us more fertile, researchers say.

Planet 10? Pluto had its planetary rank ripped away from it, but there could be two more planets out there waiting to take its place.

Doctors can fight off drug-resistant bacteria and fungi by using the microbes’ own defenses against them.

Scientists are using a wooden prosthetic toe from ancient Egypt to learn more about the civilization that once thrived in northern Africa.

High school students are representing the U.S. this week in Paris at an international rocketry competition.